tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2259299923840656633..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: More on Dawkins' GodBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69080930849429564862007-03-17T15:05:00.000+00:002007-03-17T15:05:00.000+00:00Re: Dawkins and Bostrom. Is there a smoking gun h...Re: Dawkins and Bostrom. Is there a smoking gun here? By which I mean: has Dawkins ever come close to saying a kind word for Transhumanism?<BR/><BR/>The only linkage I know of is tenuous at best. (Dawkins' pal Dennett has a pal named Hofstadter who spoke along with Bostrom at the Singularity get-together at Stanford last summer. Like hmmmm.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13246701172821405814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55287794465597165872006-11-17T12:59:00.000+00:002006-11-17T12:59:00.000+00:00Yeah, the 'Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason a...Yeah, the 'Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science' made me laugh as well. Matched only by Nick Bostrom's 'Future of Humanity Institute' in Oxford(that's Nick Bostrom of the 'World Transhumanist Association').<br /><br />I really must set-up some sort of cult of my own sometime.Gordon McCabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151162643523937086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59153052919599411272006-11-17T08:48:00.000+00:002006-11-17T08:48:00.000+00:00As ever, Gordon, you have me and I would apologise...As ever, Gordon, you have me and I would apologise to the Dawk but I have just been introduced to his new web site - http://richarddawkins.net/foundation,ourMission<br />This man is more dangerous that even I realised.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-10700011121329595212006-11-16T23:49:00.000+00:002006-11-16T23:49:00.000+00:00Nice piece of irony there Bryan: recommending a re...Nice piece of irony there Bryan: recommending a review of a Dawkins book you haven't read, which immediately castigates Dawkins for passing judgement without having read the relevant literature! Proves once again that irony is more than just getting the creases out your trousers.Gordon McCabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151162643523937086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-89813798176779894562006-11-16T18:26:00.000+00:002006-11-16T18:26:00.000+00:00...a loathing of the depraved humanist orthodoxy t......a loathing of the depraved humanist orthodoxy that passes for deep thought these days...<br /><br />Wonderfully put. Precisely my point.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-84781941501092413112006-11-16T17:55:00.000+00:002006-11-16T17:55:00.000+00:00Every sin is the result of collaboration
...Seneca...Every sin is the result of collaboration<br />...Seneca<br /><br /><br />Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.<br />...Aldous Huxley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91570483047549528672006-11-16T13:19:00.000+00:002006-11-16T13:19:00.000+00:00I have just read M. Robinson's essay and it is bri...I have just read M. Robinson's essay and it is brilliant. I know her fiction, which contains some of the most beautiful writing I've ever seen -- astonishing metaphors involving water and light -- and insights about human nature, but I had no idea she could also mount such a formidable argument. She is cogent, lucid, and has her statements backed up with clear and compelling evidence. Those who Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-637542139664663992006-11-16T12:23:00.000+00:002006-11-16T12:23:00.000+00:00"Man has constantly violated nature. The result is..."Man has constantly violated nature. The result is a civilisation built on force, fear, dependence. All our technical progress has only provided us with a comfort, a sort of standard. And instruments of violence to keep power. We use the microscope like a cudgel. As soon as we make a scientific breakthrough we put it to use in the service if evil. And as for our standard, a wise man said that sinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com